Transkribus Credits

About Transkribus Credits

To make things easy, Transkribus works with so-called credits. Credits are all you need to work with Transkribus – you are completely free to choose which engine you use. The engine selected for each job only decides how many credits are used per page. With the calculator below, you can see how many pages you can process per engine with your credit-package. More about credits >>

Credits are all you need to work with Transkribus.

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Buy Transkribus credits

Select the credit-package and calculate the pages you can process with that package.

You can spend the credits on whatever combination you would like – the type of writing and the engine that you choose only regulate how many credits per page are used. You do not have to use all the credits on just one of the above options.

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Are you a student?

The support of future scholars is one of our core values. Therefore, we offer the Transkribus studentship programme. You can get free credit packages for Transkribus handwritten text recognition for your thesis project. Just send us a short description of the bachelor, master or PhD project you are working on and provide some background information about yourself.

Are you a teacher?

We would like to help the next generation of digital scholars as much as we can. To do this, we also aim to support those who teach them with free credits. Feel free to send us a short description of your current or upcoming course, webinar, programme or workshop, regardless of the kind of school, university or event, and provide some background information about yourself.

How to manage credits in Transkribus

Everything you need to know about the management of Credits in Transkribus.

The credit manager

Managing your credits in Transkribus is as easy as buying them. You can view and organize your credit account in Transkribus using the Credit Manager Dialog. You can find the button to open at the bottom-right of the Collection Manager.

Your free credits

Right from the start, you will find a free credit package in the Credit Manager Dialog’s “My Credit Packages” table on the left-hand side, which shows all packages owned by you.

Your balance

Besides the balance of the package, i.e. the number of remaining credits in that package, another important value is the “shareable” property. The free package is non-shareable, meaning that only you can use it for recognition services.
At the bottom right of the table you can see the overall balance of all your packages. An overview on how many pages can still be processed with any of the services is accessible via the calculator button (to show this data on a per-package basis, you can right-click the package and select “Show details…”).

Credit consumption

Once you start a particular job, e.g. a recognition run using CITlab HTR+, the required amount is automatically booked and subtracted from the package. In case the job is cancelled or the processing failed on specific pages, i.e. no transcription was stored, the amount accounting for the missing pages is returned to the package.

Shareable credits

Not all credits are sharable. With the packages “120” and “500”, we offer more affordable but at the same time limited packages. They can only be bought once a month and cannot be shared. Larger packages come with full sharing functionality and do not have a monthly buying limit.

Share credits

For any “shareable” credit packages that you have you can authorize others to use them for recognition jobs.
For this, the users must be added to the respective collection with a role that allows them to start recognition jobs, e.g. “Transcriber” (see also How To Transcribe Documents with Transkribus on how to manage users in collections).

The right-hand side of the “Credit Manager” dialog shows the credit packages assigned to the currently loaded collection in the “Credit Packages in Collection” table. You can assign your shareable packages to the current collection by selecting them in the “My Credit Packages” table and clicking the right-arrow button between the two tables. Analogously, you can remove your packages from the collection by selecting them in the “Credit Packages in Collection” table and clicking the left-arrow button.

Any recognition job that is started in this collection will then use credits from packages linked to it. If none are linked or all of them are depleted, credits from the packages owned by the user who started the job are used.

Splitting Shareable Packages

In case you do not want to transfer a complete package to one collection, you have the option to split it up into one or several smaller packages which can themselves be assigned to different collections.

For doing so, right-click on the package in the “My Credit Packages” table and select “Split package…”. In the following dialog you can select the number of packages you want to create as well as the amount to be transferred to each of those packages.